[March 25, 2020] This past week was a turning point in the United States and most of the West. Finally came the realization that the Coronavirus pandemic is a problem more massive than anyone, except for a few conspiracy theorists, could imagine. Like last week, I’ll be writing about a few of my observations from the great self-isolation.… Read More »
[March 24, 2020] If we were to look back upon the planning for the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, the one thing missing was an exit strategy. It was an invaluable lesson learned from our strategic failures and one lesson that is seriously appreciated. What we need now, during the Coronavirus pandemic, is an exit strategy from the… Read More »
[March 21, 2020] Before there were government-mandated recycling, sanitary landfills, and rules saying what you can and cannot take to the dump, every community had its Town Dump. As a young teenager, I worked at one to pick out valuable items to sell and reuse. On my first day on the job, I found a non-working vacuum cleaner.… Read More »
[March 20, 2020] The idea that some things in our lives are more important than others has been around since the beginning of humankind. In the 1400s and until recently, the word ‘priority’ meant something being the first one. However, ‘priority’ got hijacked somewhere along the way, and now it means many things. This change has led to… Read More »
[March 19, 2020] For my birthday in 2001, my dad sent me a new book by Tom Brokaw titled, The Greatest Generation. It covered many of the extraordinary stories of a generation that gave new meaning to courage, sacrifice, and honor during WW2. This generation gave so much and asked so little. Today, our young men and women,… Read More »
[March 18, 2020] For those not living off the grid (by definition you are not reading this), you’ve been following the up-and-coming great isolation. The infectious and deadly Coronavirus – origins in China – has been spreading like wildfire on dry canyon grass, causing us to isolate ourselves from one another. At least that is what medical experts… Read More »
[March 17, 2020] Looking through the “free new movies” section of Netflix last night, I ran upon the movie All Hands on Deck (1961) starring Pat Boone, Buddy Hackett, et al. Decades ago, when it first came out, my dad gathered up our entire family to see it at a drive-in on a hot and humid evening in… Read More »
[March 14, 2020] I’m a little late to the party with this post. Several of my readers have pointed out that I have not written a comment on avoiding the Coronavirus. I would not want to disappoint. Besides, government public health officials have been full of advice about how we can minimize the risk of catching the virus. … Read More »
[March 13, 2020] One thing the U.S. Army Infantry School taught me back in 1983 was that you had better be aware of your operational environment. This requirement meant that each of us Second Lieutenants had to understand and deliberately plan for the conditions, circumstances, and influences that will affect our military unit’s mission. In this article, I… Read More »
[March 10, 2020] It has said that leadership is the art of giving people a platform for spreading ideas that work. But some ideas work and some don’t work. There is a long-standing controversy about whether the views of Robert Owen, one of the founders of Socialism, actually work. Robert Owen, a Welsh textile manufacturer and social reformer,… Read More »